In the strategic Disciplinary Commission of the Judicial Council
there are 251 requests for disciplinary sanctions against judges from the beginning of 2021
to date.
Since former deputy K Héctor Recalde assumed the presidency of the commission, approximately 143 files began to be processed.
But only eight of those disciplinary complaints against judges were
not assigned an instructor.
The most important file of these eight
is one against the federal judge of La Plata and militant K Alejo Ramos Padilla
.
Nor were instructors appointed for files of judges Javier Sánchez Sarmiento and Ariel Lijo, among others, the sources said.
This is File 25/2023, titled
“Negri M.;
López JM;
and, Tonelli P. (National Dip.)
v. Dr. Alejo Ramos Padilla (Federal Court No. 1 La Plata).”
The then deputies of Together for Change Mario Negri, Pablo Tonelli and Juan Manuel López presented the complaint on March 15, 2023.
It was reported that, when Judge Alejo Ramos Padilla attended as a witness to the Impeachment Commission of the Chamber of Deputies against the members of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, last year, he incurred “
false testimony in different passages.” of his statement,
which, in the opinion of the complainants, constitutes a cause for poor performance in his duties.”
Ramos Padilla
falsely accused the then deputy Tonelli of having leaked the audios
of the K prisoners in the Ezeiza prison where the case he opened in February 2019 against the false lawyer Marcelo D'Alessio was advanced ten days in advance and he wanted to use it. to bring down the case of the Bribery Notebooks.
A source from the Judiciary maintained that “it is the
most important
file pending before the Disciplinary Commission that has not been drawn for assignment to a reporting counselor,” among others.
The source suspects that “the president of that commission, Héctor Recalde,
has left him trapped in the Presidency
and, obviously, he has not had any movement or action.”
If three years after the resignation is submitted it is not processed,
it is archived
.
This strategic commission
is chaired by Héctor Recalde
and has Judge María Alejandra Provítola as vice president.
The rest of its members are Senator K María Inés Pilatti Vergara, Senator K Mariano Recalde, Senator of Corrientes Eduardo Vischi (UCR), Judge Agustina Díaz Cordero, Judge Diego Barroetaveña, Judge Alberto Lugones and the academic of the University of Lomas de Zamora Hugo Galderisi.
In March of last year, a group of Juntos deputies presented a complaint to the Judicial Council for
poor performance of duties
against federal judge Alejo Ramos Padilla for
"lying"
in his testimony in the Impeachment Commission against the Court. Supreme.
And they asked that, after a political trial, he be removed or at least given a disciplinary sanction.
Deputies
Mario Negri (UCR), Juan Manuel López (Civic Coalition) and Pablo Tonelli (PRO)
accuse him of poor performance in his duties and
multiple disciplinary offenses
for having declared "with an absolute lack of prudence and decorum" and of having lied and “serious personal conduct disorder”
According to the complaint filed with the body that elects, sanctions and dismisses judges, Ramos Padilla, in various sections of his statement before the Political Trial Commission on February 23, maintained that he was the victim of
"a political trial open for two years." " -a process that did not exist-
and accused the deputy Tonelli -at that time a member of the Judiciary- of having promoted this impeachment based on "illegal wiretapping", among other "falsehoods".
In the presentation, the deputies maintain that what Ramos Padilla testified, in various parts of his dissertation, is false.
They explain that in other cases, such as Operativo Puf, the magistrate was never summoned to testify in the Judiciary, nor was a political trial initiated since not even a ruling was prepared leading to an accusation against him.
On the contrary, he closed it.
"False statements, made with an absolute lack of
decorum or prudence and consciously
and repeatedly, are sufficient reason for the magistrate to be removed from his position or, at least, sanctioned," explained the then deputies.
Other controversial rulings.
In April 2022, Ramos Padilla Padilla filed the case for the violent occupation of land on the property of the former Los Hornos Glider Club, on the outskirts of the city of La Plata, and one of the arguments he used in his ruling was that the occupation of those lands
"took place without violence and in broad daylight."
The magistrate warned that the case was filed "because the events that gave rise to it
did not constitute a crime
, as prescribed by article 195, second paragraph of the National Criminal Procedure Code," highlighting that "the entry into the land took place in broad daylight." at daytime".
Ramos Padilla
is the son of chamber judge Juan Ramos Padilla who organized marches to oust members of the Supreme Court of Justice
and insulted several of his colleagues.
The K majority of the Judiciary also rejected political trials or disciplinary measures against Ramos Padilla Sr.
Another source from the Judicial Council consulted by Clarín said that the case of Ramos Padilla and seven others was not discussed because
“there were no meetings at the end of the year”
of the Disciplinary Commission.
The source confirmed that “
it is indeed pending to appoint a counselor in the case of Ramos Padilla and seven other
judges but because there was no Commission meeting.”
In the case of Ramos Padilla "first
it was decided whether he would go to the Disciplinary or Accusation Commission
but it remained in Discipline and an instructor counselor
needs
to be appointed, there are several in that situation because there was no meeting after the July fair."
“There are opinions asking for dismissal or evidence of everything to be presented to the commission but no progress was made because there were no more meetings,” the source insisted.
In 2019, the K majority of the Judiciary rejected two requests for impeachment against Ramos Padilla for his controversial performance in the case against the false lawyer Marcelo D'Alessio that allowed Operation Puf to be launched against the cause of the Notebooks of the Bribes.
In addition, he was the one who set up
a case against Mauricio Macri for a false complaint of espionage against relatives of the 44 heroes of the San Juan submarine
.
When Cristina Kirchner promoted Ramos Padilla's move to federal and electoral judge of La Plata, he was replaced in Dolores by his Azul colleague Martín Baba.
He prosecuted Macri for illegal espionage but the Buenos Aires federal chamber
annulled the prosecution with harsh criticism of Baba
and said that the family members' reports were taken from open sources and in public places to preserve the president's safety.